Sprout Salad , Poetry & Blogging ~ looking ahead for the next 365 days!!

I am not much of a new year kind of a person, in fact I believe its just a measure of  certain number of days made up by humans....while time is eternal. Every day is a new beginning for me and I take it as it comes...there are times when I do look back though, like on my birthdays, anniversaries(marriage, blog, etc) and evaluate how much I have lived & learned from life. So, when I saw a couple of posts of my fellow bloggers looking back on the year ahead, it made me think how much I have loved, lived, learnt about life through blogging in the past 365 days of the year 2012.

One of my most cherished blogging moments have been meeting and getting to know some wonderful bloggers. I have been interacting with them via blogs, but this year thanks to a sudden deluge of blogger meets, I got to meet them in person.

This Fengureek  & Lentil Salad, represents to me an apt representation of the year past and the  direction I look forward to for the next 365 days of 2013 ~ Health, Happiness, Blogging and Friendship :)

The recipe of this salad is by my good friend and blogger Sangeeta Khanna, I made this yummy & healthy Salad many times (health & fitness being the key words of everyday living for me for many years now) and on posting image of this salad on a Facebook bloggers forum, another lovely blogger Surgana Date wrote  a wonderful poem.

Poem by Suranga Date ~ Inspired by the salad 

Julietta Fenugreeka

and Kala Udid Romeo,

both upset 

with each other,

weeping and stewing 

in their own tears,

didnt notice 

something sprouting

as the day passed. 

Depressed, unhappy, 

and swollen in anger,

they didnt see 

the Coconut man 

confabulating with

the Kadi Patta lady. 

Office bearers 

of the 

The Saladian Unity Corps,

they got the two together,

and in the process

actually went 

through burning 

oil and fire themselves.

It took some effort, 

getting everyone together,

the tempers cooling 

under an onslaught 

of lemon juice, 

salt and sugar, 

not to mention 

some tough attitude from 

Mirchibai. 

A spoon stopping by,

was heard to say ,

"Who would have thought

these two 

would finally get together,

and that 

I would actually be 

the cause of their disappearance

into someone's stomach ?

Looking to the next 365 days with a lot of anticipation....lets roll!!!